This may be old news to some of you, but I recently got around to checking out Appnr.com, and I’m pretty impressed. It’s a website for searching and installing the Ubuntu application repositories straight from the web. All the standard repos are listed and up-to-date–even the Google Linux repos.
Appnr boasts a super-clean interface [...]

Scott from Ubuntu Musings reported on the recent release of LyX 1.6. If you’re into LaTeX and pristinely formatted documents done with a minimum of hassle, you’ll want to check the latest version of LyX out.
The idea behind the LyX is that you give area of your document “styles” and let the the program [...]

I did a recent update of the Gwibber micro-blogging client from their Ubuntu PPA, and I was extremely pleased to see that they’ve added the ability to sort by replies via a special tab in the interface. This is a welcome improvement that makes Gwibber the most productive micro-blogging client for me on the Linux [...]

Just a quick post for those of you settling into the latest version of Ubuntu! Enabling USB in Sun VirtualBox is a little different in Intrepid Ibex than other versions. Remember, you’ll have to have the closed source, Personal Use and Evaluation version of VirtualBox for this one. The Open Source Edition (VirtualBox OSE) doesn’t [...]